Dominica and Cuba renew Technical Cooperation Agreement

Darroux and the Cuban ambassador shake hands after the signing
Darroux and the Cuban ambassador shake hands after the signing

Dominica and Cuba have renewed the Technical Cooperation Agreement in health which exists between the two countries.

The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Cuba and the Ministry of Health and Environment of Dominica signed the document at a ceremony held in the Ministry of Health Conference Room on Friday.

Under the agreement Cuba has, over the years, been making a significant contribution to Dominica’s health sector and according to Chief Medical Officer, Dr. David Johnson, dozens of Cuban medical specialists, physicians, specialized nurses, bio medical engineers and lab technicians are currently working here in Dominica.

During his brief opening remarks at the signing ceremony, Dr. Johnson expressed gratitude on behalf of his team, for the presence of the Cuban health personnel in Dominica.

“We admire our Cuban colleagues and their politeness and humility” he stated.

Dr. Darroux and H.E. Frometa de La Rosa sign  the document
Dr. Darroux and H.E. Frometa de La Rosa sign the document

Cuban ambassador H.E. Juan Carlos Frometa de la Rosa, said he was honored to have been there to sign the agreement as it “shows the political will of the Cuban government and people to continue to help Dominica.”

“We are friends, we are sister islands, we are Caribbean,” he affirmed.

Minister for Health and Environment Kenneth Darroux who signed the agreement on Dominica’s behalf, thanked H.E. Juan Carlos Frometa de la Rosa for what he described as the ambassador’s intimate and personal involvement in the signing of the agreement.

“We truly look forward to strengthening this partnership as we are doing now” he stated.

Dominica and Cuba have been in this Cooperative Agreement since 1997.

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8 Comments

  1. Little Havana
    October 24, 2016

    A big “Thank You” to the Cuban People. Please bring back Dr. Gonzalez!

  2. October 24, 2016

    Francisco you are making a valid point

    • Thank you: some will never understand that in Dominica its all about talk. And I will say again he who feels it knows it. I have felt it many times, when malpractice in Dominica caused the death of my relatives, even last year!

      A niece of mine was almost beaten to death! During the beating she sustained injuries to her head, four times she went to the PMH complaining about the trauma to her head. Each time the quacks sent her home; the last she went home she succumb to the injuries.

      If there are so many medical specialists in the country, one of them might have the commonsense to admit my niece into the hospital for a twenty-four or forty-eight hours observation, that is how it is done, any first year medical student knows that. Instead they sent her home while she was bleeding internally.

      I suspect she was bleeding from her brain, that he why she had so much head pain. I had another cousin who developed a defective kidney, humans has two, all they had to do is remove the…

  3. Tell the Truth
    October 23, 2016

    Telemaque is such an ignorant and negative man. You always have to criticize. You should know “Engineer” is a new word which is frequently utilized these days. Have you heard of an electrical engineer? There are more, “engineer” for this and that.
    People live and people die and vice versa. Is it always the PMH’s fault that some people die? Maybe you should think, when the time comes for people to die, they will die.
    If some die as a result of negligence, then the cause of death should be investigated.

    Ecclesiastes 3:3:1-2 – Man Cannot Hit On The Right Time To Act – There is an appointed time for everything and a time for every affair under the Heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die. . . .
    Be thankful to God you are still alive.

    • Facts, the new word lab engineers seem to exists only in your mind and in the mind of people like Darroux, and the rest of the foolish Dominicans maybe.

      I am not surprised since Dominicans are the only people who knows what is a jet port. I seems to forget that I was told that Dominica English is different to that of the rest of the world. So maybe you are right, Lab technicians, blood pathologists, and Ex-ray technicians, such people in Dominica might well be called lab engineers.

      Let me show you how you lie you are: there is no Ecclesiastes 3:3:1-2; however in Ecclesiastes 3:1-3; it is written:

      ” To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

      2. A time to be born, an d a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted ;

      3. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up.

      What does Ecclesiastes chapter 3:1,2, 3 has to do with bull you are about lab engineers?

  4. Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
    October 22, 2016

    “Cuba has, over the years, been making a significant contribution to Dominica’s health sector and according to Chief Medical Officer, Dr. David Johnson, dozens of Cuban medical specialists, physicians, specialized nurses, bio medical engineers and lab.”

    Nevertheless, more dead patients come out of the PMH than those who are cured……………….

    This is a first in medicine: I have never heard of a laboratory engineer. We know about Lab Technicians. When we are talking about specialists physicians, we are talking about doctors who specialize in a particular practice. He/she practice is different from a General Practitioner. If there are so many trained Cuban Specialists operating on the island how come as soon a Dominica Politician have a headache the run from Dominica, how come wife fear giving birth at the PMH?

    • “have a headache the run from Dominica, how come wife fear giving birth at the PMH?”

      Admin, if you omitted the rest the point I try to make, to prove Darroux and Co, are talking nonsense where it pertains to Specialists is a joke, because it would appear to me that among all the specialists, there are no gynecologists, or cancer specialists.

      As I said if there were cancer specialists in Dominica, how come two Cuban born doctors were about to cut a Dominica labor politician, who served in Government one time open to remove Cancer, when man does not have Cancer, what they saw in the man were markers caused by untreated diabetes.

      Again I’ll say had it not been for a Dominica here who had the man come out here and get professional medical attention they in Dominica would have butchered the who does not have cancer.

      If certain woman I not say her name because I know you will not print it; because of fear, but if that person refuse to give birth to her children in Dominica…

  5. Dr Clayton Shillingford
    October 22, 2016

    Good show.. We need all the help we can get

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